Course curriculum

    1. Assessment objectives

    2. What is criminal practice about?

    3. Key definitions

    4. Key legislation

    5. Reminder about offence categorisation

    1. Overview of advising clients at the police station

    2. Initial arrest and custody

    3. Rights of a suspect in police custody

    4. The detention period

    5. Summary of custody processes and timelines

    6. PRACTISE MCQs: Advising clients at the police station

    1. Overview of police interviews and identification procedure

    2. Gathering information on arrival at the police station

    3. Suspect interviewing procedure under PACE

    4. Interviews and remaining silent

    5. Professional conduct issues at the police station

    6. Identification procedure

    7. PRACTISE MCQs: Police interviews and identification procedure

    1. Overview of police bail and charging the suspect

    2. Release under investigation

    3. Bail before charge

    4. Charging a suspect

    5. Bail or detention after charge

    6. Alternatives to charging

    7. PRACTISE MCQs: Police bail and charging the suspect

    1. Overview of representing vulnerable clients

    2. Vulnerable suspects

    3. Appropriate adults

    4. Interviewing and identifying vulnerable suspects

    5. Charging juveniles

    6. Alternatives to charging juveniles

    7. PRACTISE MCQs: Representing vulnerable clients

    1. Overview of bail

    2. What is bail? What is remand?

    3. Remand

    4. The right to bail

    5. Bail conditions

    6. Bail application procedures

    7. Variations and appeals against bail decisions

    8. Absconding and breaches of bail

    9. PRACTISE MCQs: Bail

    1. Overview of allocation

    2. Categories of offences

    3. Public funding

    4. Procedural overview

    5. Either way offences

    6. Multiple offences

    7. PRACTISE MCQs: First hearing and allocation

    1. Overview of case management and pre-trial hearings

    2. Introduction to case management

    3. Magistrates' Court case management

    4. Crown Court hearings

    5. Disclosure

    6. PRACTISE MCQs: Case management and pre-trial hearings

    1. Overview of evidence

    2. Burden and standard of proof

    3. Admissibility

    4. Identification evidence

    5. Adverse inferences

    6. Hearsay evidence

    7. Confession evidence

    8. Character evidence - the defendant

    9. Character evidence - other persons

    10. The right to a fair trial

    11. PRACTISE MCQs: Evidence

    1. Overview of trial procedure

    2. Introduction to trials

    3. Magistrates’ Court trials

    4. Crown Court trials

    5. Witnesses

    6. Courtroom conduct

    7. PRACTISE MCQs: Trial procedure

    1. Overview of sentencing

    2. Non-custodial sentences

    3. Custodial sentences

    4. Sentencing powers of the courts

    5. Calculating sentences

    6. Newton hearings

    7. PRACTISE MCQs: Sentencing

    1. Overview of appeals

    2. Introduction to appeals

    3. Appeals to the Crown Court

    4. Appeals by way of case stated to the High Court

    5. Appeals to the Court of Appeal

    6. Judicial review

    7. Summary

    8. PRACTISE MCQs: Appeals

    1. Overview of youth court procedure

    2. The youth justice system

    3. Bail for youths

    4. Sentencing in the youth court

    5. PRACTISE MCQs: Youth court procedure

    1. Instructions

    2. Criminal practice MOCK EXAMS

Criminal practice

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James Richardson

Co-founder, Senior Lawyer & Academic Author

James is a highly experienced solicitor and academic legal author. He trained and qualified at major transatlantic firm Hogan Lovells, where he worked for years in their Commercial Litigation, Product Liability, and Insurance team. After stints in Hong Kong, Munich, and working as an M&A Underwriter, James moved in-house and is currently Head of Legal, Risk and Compliance at Insurtech scale-up Cuvva.

James also founded and ran Law Answered for a decade, where he published 42 critically-acclaimed revision guides for postgraduate law courses, which have helped tens of thousands of students through their exams.

Connect with James on LinkedIn via www.linkedin.com/in/jamrichardson

Jake Schogger

Co-founder, Lawyer & Education Expert

Jake Schogger is a best-selling commercial awareness author, ex-Magic Circle lawyer, co-founder of Law Student Academy, and the founder and CEO of legal careers platform Commercial Law Academy.

He trained at Freshfields, then spent years at a boutique law firm advising start-ups and scale-ups on a range of corporate, commercial and employment matters. He has also published eight books covering career development and legal education (including two best-sellers), worked extensively as a career coach, and delivered countless employability and skills presentations at leading universities and law firms across the UK.

Connect with Jake on LinkedIn via www.linkedin.com/in/jakeschogger

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